Instinctive and impulsive creation has been a thing in my life for a while now and this episode is one of them too.

"Getting in my own way" and "getting out of my own way" have been phrases which have always caught me off guard. And since they've come up a couple days ago and today in my life, I wanted to come up here and discover more about them.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of getting out of our own ways.

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The mentioned new journey 🫂Flowsophy Circles🏛 is an intimate, vulnerable, empowering and overall soul-to-soul group coaching, self-actualization and co-creation journey where will be creating a flow in and alignment with our philosophy.

It will be in volumes that will be open in different times of the year - sometimes one after another, sometimes simultaneously.

The Vol. 1 will be in Turkish with the topic focusing "Creating Pockets of Space: Doing Less To Find Depth" 🐚

The Vol. 2 will be in English: "Intentional and Grounded Action Taking Toward A New Desired Reality"

(a page explaining all the details is coming soon!)

The space is always open for us to co-create. The topic of each volume will be creating co-creatively with the response I get from YOU and the conversations I witness.

If this collective yet personal creation space calls out you, let's connect. I'd love to explore the ground with you.

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For more questions to reflect on and live, I’d like to invite you to ⁠Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter⁠.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

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Related Episodes:

Episode 17 - The Constant Pursuit of Wisdom: How Everything Becomes An Answer

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This episode is for all the women out there who wants to create an alignment with their bodies by listening to their internal ryhthms (aka their hormonal cycles) and all the men out there who wants to understand how female bodies work and discover ways to support the women in their lives.

Disclaimer: All of the things I shared with you is about my experience of my own hormonal cycle. Yours will be definitely and inevitably different. Let what you heard here be an invitation for you to listen to your body, track your mental and emotional state and observe yourself. And for anyone without a female hormonal cycle, this can be an invitation for you to understand female body and cultivate spaces for them. We rise all together anyway.

In my luteal phase (I’d like to call it my nesting phase), my incubation tendencies have their peaks and sometimes I may be tend to overcrowd myself even.

Let’s discover your nesting periods and tendencies together 🎨𝞅

Join me in exploring the philosophy of nesting, creativity and female hormonal cycles.

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Picking up where we left off powerfully on the last episode, we’re getting deeper in our coping mechanisms to deal with the unknown.

What is that I’m trying to control about the unknown nature of life by coming up with my judgements?

Our seek for certainty in life can be the very reason behind our stuckness, lack of joy and connection with others, ourselves and the world around us.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of our judgements and the unknown nature of life.

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I’m inviting you to the Open-to-Everyone Free Group Coaching Call on November the 14th.

We’ll be discovering our coping mechanisms with the unknown and ways to work with them in taking steps toward our dreams and goals.

More details are here. You’re more than welcomed to join us in this vulnerable and empowering space.

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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community

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Related Episodes:

• ​Episode 7 - Understanding Our Individual Philosophy — about our perceptions and their place in our whole functioning
• ​Episode 20 - Intentional Living: Awareness and Release — about using our perceptions for our benefits
• ​Episode 18 - Beyond the Binary Mind: Holding Opposites and Embracing the Middle Ground — about the ability to hold opposite views, the power of grey area and middle grounds and mechanisms behind the binary thinking

References:

• ​Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
• ​“No Judgement” Guided Meditation Practice by Manoj Dias on Open
• ​Turkish commentary on Lao Tzu’s philosophy: “Binlerce Kilometrelik Yolculuk Bile Tek Bir Adımla Başlar” by Melda Kamhi Kosif (pp. 57 & 84)

With a very raw and emotional start to the episode, I’m following the light and path that we opened up in the very first group coaching call I hosted with my community.

The more I learn, the less I feel ready

This was one of the bold statements and realizations of the wonderful people shared in that space.

Following that, I’m re-exploring the philosophy of incubation with the light of our seek for clarity and our struggle with the unknown.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of the unknown ✨

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I have EXCITING NEWS FOR YOU!!

Here are all the details for the first very open-to-everyone group coaching call.

The space we created with my community should welcome more people who want to realign and recalibrate themselves back with their inner sage and potential and create their lives with that mindset with a support of a safe and welcoming community and space.

Open-to-Everyone Group Coaching Session #1: Incubation & Delaying Action // 14th November, Thursday // 7pm CET, 1 pm EST

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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community

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References:

• ​Andrew Gerstner’s Medium article “Ready is not a Feeling, it is a Decision”

Reading John Mayer’s recent interview with Shawn Mendes took me to the places that I was curious to discover.

The themes that spoke out to me from it were the topics of my life nowadays:

• The idea of being available all the time: “ I don’t want this world to be dictating when I am on or off.”
• “Home is ultimately you”
• Our tendecy of suffocating good things we have by asking for them to be consistent

It has been a journey of reflection and trying to find a golden threat between them.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of feeling at home.

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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community

References:

• John Mayer’s interview with Shawn Mendes on Interview Magazine

I’m excited to be back with Season 2 of Inner Dialogues with Ecem.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, I discovered the concept of resistance which was something I felt during this 7-weeks-long break I took from the podcast.

Resistance can be sneaky to understand and determine and it was the case for me until a very recent chats I hold with a couple of friends.

“Suffering is always resistance.

Resistance is the unwillingness to experience.”

Unwillingness to experience is what creates the suffering.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of resistance and creating further once we allow to feel it all.

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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community.

Related posts and episodes:

• Dear 25 — I recently turned 25 and wanted to reflect on how I feel in this period of my life. The conversation I had with a friend over that exceprt from Designing the Mind book that I shared with you was a big inspiration for this video.

• Episode 24 - Victim of Mental Pull to Creator of Reality: Papañca to Witness — further on personal discovery of witness state for me

References:

- Mentioned IG video by Adan W. Spencer

- “Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture” by Ryan A. Bush" (p. 185)

“Why does this always happen to me?”

Have you ever said this?

Or have you ever found yourself being dragged by your thoughts within 5 seconds? Seeing someone on social media, hearing a music or smell took you back in time and even maybe to future.

What if I told you this has a name? I recently learned that this tendency of our minds being pulled away by experiences and situations which ends up creating a mental chatter is called “papañca”.

And what if I told you everytime we are pulled away with our thoughts, we position ourselves as victims in our lives.

How?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on victimhood, mindfulness and witness-hood.

Can life happen through me, by me and even as me, instead to me?

Let’s explore it together.

Let’s move from being the victim of our thoughts to the creator of our realities.

I HAVE SOMETHING VERY EXCITING TO SHARE WITH YOU

I’ve shared my recent struggles with this papañca state and ironic enough writing about my feeling and reflections onto my journal inspired me to start a newsletter. I’ve shared more about it in the episode. Here is the link to subscribe “Philos: A Weekly Journal” from Inner Dialogues with Ecem - a personal, contemplative journal-like newsletter.

It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community

References:

- “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” book by Rick Rubin

- Steven Schwartzberg’s quote is from Huffpost: “Buddhism and the Messiness of Everyday Thinking”

- “What is Papancha?” YouTube video by Ed Conley

- Quoted Quora entry by Sibasis Sahoo

- Quotes from Ram Dass were taken from the an excerpt from this book “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart”

Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus

Mentioned Episodes:

• Episode 22 - Navigating Transition Periods: "The Bubble" and "Looking-Glass Self"

• Episode 20 - Intentional Living: Awareness and Release — regarding being the witness

• Episode 10 - Why Do the Best Ideas Come In the Shower? - Hustle Culture vs. Downtime

• Episode 11 - Are You Responding or Reacting?

• Pod/Ep.19 - Self-Development is A Myth/The Journey of Unbecoming — regarding understanding life from inside to outside

Have you ever caught yourself evaluating your creativity based on how many words or sentences you wrote on a day or how many canvases you painted?

What about your productivity - have you ever evaluated it based on how many emails you have sent, how long you sit in front of your computer or how many ideas you pitched in a meeting?

Have you ever caught yourself evualting your mindfulness based on how long you meditated for?

Or your health based on what you eat, what you don’t, what exercises you do and how long?

As humans, we have a great tendency to reduce a big concept into the ways and which we measure them.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip on this reductonist narrative and our creativity.

Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” has become a huge part of my life as I recently started reading it.

I feel like I have more to create with it, let this be a beginning.

Let’s uncover the deeper meaning of creative expression, the concepts of love, time, intelligence, productivity, health and more.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of creativity and reductionism✨

If your soul is aching for your heart’s path and living in a reality of it, we can co-create a masterpiece of authenticity of together! You have every answer and way within you, we just need to stir them. I’m offering FREE coaching calls THIS MONTH. Book your free 1:1 call with me here (or reach out to me on Instagram DM below ⬇️

🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community

References:

“The Creative Act: A Way of Being” book by Rick Rubin

“In Your Arms” song by Blake Rose (mentioned lyric: "I fell apart when I finally realized that we've got clocks, we could never time.”)

Related Episodes:

Episode 17 - The Constant Pursuit of Wisdom- How Everything Becomes An Answer

Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus